Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-04

other, when Clark drew his revolver and
fired at 0'Neil. / was standing right back
ofO'Neil, perhaps twenty-five or thirty
yards. Istepped across the track towards
the west-towards Clark. When the first
shot was fired ONeil started and ran To-
wards the west, down the track away from
Clark, and Clark shot again. O'Neil then
turned half around and pulled q revolver
and attempted TO pull it off, but being half
cooked it wouldn't go of, and then he fell
on his side. Clark came running up and
shot him again, and then shot him a fourth
time, right below the ear. Clark then
turned and went up the track twenty-five
or thirty feet, and then came back and
looked at O'Neil. He had the revolver in
his hand all this time. Clark then start
ed and walked to the east
twenty-five or thirty feet again, and then
ran up TO Mr.. Martins house and then
went in. / went up and looked ut O'Neil.
l saw four wounds in bis body, one in the
arm, one in the back, one on top OF the
head, and one under the ear. The pistol
was about o foot from O'Neil's head when
the shot that hit under the ear was fired.
/ don't know where Clark got the pistol.
O'Neil did not draw his pistol till after
the second shot was fired. He pulled it as
he was falling. Clark did not show his
revolver till he pulled his hand out of the
pocket of a short coat he had on. Clark
said to me when he looked at O'Neil: You
saw that, did you, Bill?' l said: Yes
He said: This is only superstition /
think he meant by superstition u case OF
supposing. Clark had q pistol in his hand
at that time. O'Neil followed, but l
don't know that he said: For Gods sake,
don't shoot any mOre!' He was lying down
when he cried out"
WILLIAM WEBSTER.
II saw O'Neil yesterday about 4:3O
o'clock near the tipple. Clark wasperhaps
fifty wards further on towards the bridge.
| Jaw him fire a shot, the first one; he was
then twenty-five or thirty yards from
O'Neil. He continued tOcome on. When
he fired the second shot he was twenty
wards away. When the second shot was
fired O'Neil started to turn. Then Clark
came close to him and fired twice. When
Clark started to him he fell. Clark held
the pistol so (illustrating). l saw the
revolver at the time; have not seen 1t since;
don't know what kind it was. Clark
walked away after firing the last shot. l
saw marks of powder about ONeiPs ear.
| saw a shot in his head and in his neck.
The shooting took place about 5 O'Clock.
I did not see Clark throw a revolyeraway -
JAMES NJ. BUTLER.
81 saw the shooting. / was coming
down the railroad at the time. | first saw
Clark standing in his kitchen door. O'Nell
was standing near the tipple. O'Neil
stopped me and wanted me 10 hold his re-
vOlyer. He and Clark were quarTellng
with each other. O'Neil called to Clark
Give over your revolver and I'll give this
man mine, and then we will have fair
play | said / wanted nothing to do with
the matter, and started on down the track.
| heard Clark make nj reply to O'NeiPs
proposition. The next thing | heard a
shot. | suppose | was thirty yards west
OF O'Neil at that time. / turned around
and saw O'Neil running toward me, and
at the same time a second shot was fired.
Clark fired it, and 0'Neil fell. Clark ran
up to him and fired two more shots into
him. He ran up and fired so illus,
trating). l do not think the pistol was more
than two inches from O'Neil's head. Clark
then turned and walked up the track about
twenty-five feet with his revolver in his
hand. Then he walked back TO where
O'Neil was lying, looked at him a few Sec
onds, and then walked away n few feet
and then started to run. He ran to Frank
Martins house. did not see O'Neil do any
thing to Clark. He did not offer to shoot
Clark that | know Of"
NELLIE LOHMAN.
II am Clark'S siSter-in-law. | know
O'Neil; saw him yesterday; never saw him
but three times before. O'Neil came up
the track and went to Mrs. GOOdalIs. She
was in the door, and he talked to her for
awhile and then went to Elmer Clark door
and Knocked. My mother went 10 the door
and he asked where the people were that
lived in there. She told him she did not
think it was any of his business. She told
him the best thing he could do was to get
out of the yard. lie used some very pro-
tame language, and said he guessed he
could 20 up ON the railroad and stay there
aS long rs he pleased. | called to Frank
Martin to come and take the man away.
lie went over and met Martin at the bridge
and they talked a little and then walked
down to Clark's. Then Martin went TO
his house and O'Neil went on down toward
Elm Grove. | went over to Martins and
then started down to get Mr.. T%hornburg
to take O'Neil away, rs | did not want
any fuss. | SAW Clark run out
of Martins house and 90 to his own.
CLARK called to O'Neil and said if he want
ed to see him to come back. Clark started
to go toward U'Neil, walking pretty fast.
/ heard two shots, but did not hear others
for the noise OF the train. | did not see
the revolver. | never saw Clark have a
revolver, aud don't know that he went TO
Martins to get a revolver. don't know
whether Mrs. Clark was q friend OF O'NeiPs
or not. | have seen O'Neil's picture in
Martins house. Mrs. Clark gave it to
Martin when she got married. ONell
asked me if Mrs. Clark had his picture. |
told him no., that she had given 1t to Mar
tin and hat he had destroyed it. He said
that was a - lie. | do not know what
became of the picture or the revolver. |
do not know of Clark saying: 'ln 90 get a
revolver and fix the - Of -"
THE PHYSICIANS STATEMENT.
Drs. ]. II. Storer and w. a. Cracraft,
the physicians making the post morton,
submitted the following report to the
jury: .,,
I'VE examined the body Of William
O'Neil on the I'd of March, and found that
four bullets had entered the body. One
ball entered the head, near the anterior
angle OF the right parental bone. The bull
let was found in a hattened shape in the
anterior lobe of the right hemisphere OF
the brain, at the depth of more than an
inch from the outer surface. \ piece OF
bone of considerable size, entirely detach,
ed from the skull, was found resting on
the surface of the brain.
a second ball entered Immediately
under the right tar, passed upwards, and
inwards through the temporal bone, and
was found lodged in the middle lobe Of
the right hemisphere OF the brain. A
large quantity of clotted blood was found
in the right hemisphere of the brain. The
wounds in the head were the primary
causes OF death.
"A third ball entered the right arm,
trayersing a distance of five and a hal
inOhas.